Gênero, geração e raça: o cabelo como analisador para pensar mulheres negras em Nova Friburgo

Abstract

This research had as purpose the trajectory of black women residents in the city of Nova Friburgo from the analytical scopes of gender, generation and race. It was sought to understand the dynamics experienced by these women considering the phases of life, adressing racism and the challenges in relation to the construction of a black identity affirmative. The research explored the relationship of afro fribourgians with the process of becoming black, analyzing the effects of the encounter with blackness in a city in the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro, built under the narrative of a historical erasing of the black population and the pretension of bling a “Brazilian Switzerland”. It is about a cartographic research that made use of the interview as a tool. Eight black women aged between 24 and 89 living in Nova Friburgo, they were interviewed remotely through digital platforms. Throughout the research, the presence of curly hair was noticeable as the main analyzer in the interviews, highlighting the hair transition process as a significant milestone in the process of becoming black, marking different generations in different ways. By highlighting hair as a central and organizing element of this cartography, was intended to discuss how the cycles experienced by black women were structured in a city permeated by colonial symbols and apparatus which, articulated to racist mechanisms, continue to make black trajectories invisible.